1277 Baptism is birth into the new life in Christ. In accordance with the Lord's will, it is necessary for salvation, as is the Church herself, which we enter by Baptism. 1278 The essential rite ...

May God, who through water and the Holy Spirit has given us a new birth in Christ, be with you all. All make the following or some other suitable reply: And with your spirit. As circumstances ...

Kick off the week before Christmas with a special holiday cantata: “The Glory of Christmas” at Christ the King Lutheran ... when he presented the idea of a new and bigger Christmas cantata ...

retained in spite of his human birth. This type of depiction takes place in a stable, whence the holy family travelled a few days after Christ was born in a cave. This new formula was called the ...

To the Editor of The New York Times: In the statement in THE ... Fremantle, Dean of Ripon, on the immaculate conception and the virginal birth of Christ, the two doctrines, entirely distinct ...

The birth of Jesus Christ - a seminal biblical event - has been the subject of many paintings by Western artists, who have often applied the ideas of beauty and creativity prevalent there while ...